Sunday, August 24, 2008
Techno Tools
A couple of days ago, I smiled, amused, as I passed the jumble in the corner on my bedroom floor. I was packing for a short overnight trip to attend a wedding in the southern part of the state. The techno tools that I needed during the trip were in a pile, some of them charging their all-important batteries. Included in my gear were a cell phone, a laptop computer, a video camera, a digital still camera, and my PDA, each of which I thought would be legitimately necessary on the trip.Ironically, the bridal couple is an earthy, “granola”-type pair whose wedding was purposely planned for a Spartan, rustic mountaintop chapel because of its simple, back-to-basics, and back-to-nature atmosphere. They disdained the usual pomp and circumstance, and had even encouraged everyone to wear flip-flops to the ceremony.
Enter Cyppy with her techno treasure. Perhaps I sullied the pristine environment when I pulled out my gadgets, but I think the happy couple will enjoy the video and pictures that technology provided. And in my defense, they had asked for my services.
With the use of an additional technological tool, an inverter, I was able to recharge my devices and use several of them in the car during the ten hours of driving to and from the wedding. I acknowledge the additional irony that these tools that supposedly simplify our lives also make our lives more complicated and complex. Some may call it progress, and some may call it perversion, but I like my gadgets, and plan to keep on charging and using them.
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